Nonfiction

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Michael Pollan 2024
(4.5)

One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the YearWinner of the James Beard AwardAuthor of How to Change...

In Defense of Food

Michael Pollan 2024
(4.5)

#1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Food Rules  Food. T...

Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari

Aziz Ansari 2024
(4.5)

The #1 New York Times Bestseller“An engaging look at the often head-scratching, frequently infuriating mating behaviors...

The Hill We Climb

Amanda Gorman 2024
(4.5)

The instant #1 New York Times bestseller and #1 USA Today bestseller Amanda Gorman’s electrifying and historic poem “Th...

Men Explain Things to Me

Rebecca Solnit 2024
(4.5)

In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations b...

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

Eric Schlosser 2024
(4.5)

Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obes...

Ace by Angela Chen

Angela Chen 2024
(4.5)

An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the a...

The New Jim Crow

Michelle Alexander 2024
(4.5)

Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of Higher...

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Tracy Kidder 2024
(4.5)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and...

The Next Great Migration

Sonia Shah 2024
(4.5)

Finalist for the 2021 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardA Library Journal Best Science & Technology Book of...

Think Like a Freak (Freakonomics #3)

Steven D. Levitt 2024
(4.5)

The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about eve...

The Feather Thief

Kirk Wallace Johnson 2024
(4.5)

As heard on NPR's This American Life“Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the ele...

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

Michael Moss 2024
(4.5)

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Atlantic * The Huffington Post * Men's Journal * MSN (U.K.) * Kirkus Revi...

Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

Erik Larson 2024
(4.5)

A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.”In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven...

Meet the Frugalwoods

Elizabeth Willard Thames 2024
(4.5)

The deeply personal story of why award-winning personal finance blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames abandoned a successful...

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

Stephanie Land 2024
(4.5)

At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her drea...

Financial Feminist by Tori Dunlap

Tori Dunlap 2024
(4.5)

An instant New York Times bestseller From the globally-recognized personal finance educator and social media star behind...

Six Thinking Hats

Edward De Bono 2024
(4.5)

Edward de Bono does not suffer from a small ego. The first sentence of the preface to his book is: "The Six Thinking Hat...

The Myth of Normal

Gabor Maté, MD 2024
(4.5)

The instant New York Times bestsellerBy the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investig...

Create Dangerously by Albert Camus

Albert Camus 2024
(4.5)

'To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age...

How to Not Die Alone

Logan Ury 2024
(4.5)

A “must-read” (The Washington Post) funny and practical guide to help you find, build, and keep the relationship of your...

Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

Mason Currey 2024
(4.5)

More than 150 inspired—and inspiring—novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicia...

Laziness Does Not Exist

Devon Price 2024
(4.5)

From social psychologist Dr. Devon Price, a fascinating and thorough examination of what they call the “laziness lie”—wh...

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

Erik Larson 2024
(4.5)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling stor...

The Signal and the Noise

Nate Silver 2024
(4.5)

UPDATED FOR 2020 WITH A NEW PREFACE BY NATE SILVER"One of the more momentous books of the decade." —The New York Times B...

Disability Pride by Ben Mattlin

Ben Mattlin 2024
(4.5)

An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and...

Refuse to Choose! by Barbara Sher

Barbara Sher 2024
(4.5)

Don't know what to do with your life? Drawn to so many things that you can't choose just one? New York Times best-sellin...